About Us
Meet Our Lead Trainers
At Meraki, we pride ourselves in offering real-world based training. Our trainers have management, software, and systems engineering knowledge derived from years of experience in product development and deployment. It is our goal to support and guide your Team in receiving comprehensive training and coaching that will allow them to succeed in their journey to Agile Transformation and personal improvement.
Barbara Anderson
Barbara Anderson is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer with hands-on experience as Lead Agilist on a large Defense Program for the Navy as well as a growing Tech Startup and a leading Entertainment/Theme Park organization. She has consistent success helping traditionally managed organizations in their Agile Transformation and enjoys helping teams discover how to innovate, adopt an agile mindset, and accelerate the delivery of value. As an Enterprise Agile Coach, Barbara has experience coaching both teams and customers to embrace “True Scrum.” She is gifted in coaching Scrum Masters and Product Owners in their journey as Servant/Leaders. In addition to being a certified Agile Coach, she is a Registered™ Scrum Trainer, Registered™ Scrum@Scale Trainer, a Certified Scrum Professional-SM, and a Scaled Agile Framework 6.0 (SAFe) Practice Consultant (SPC) with extensive experience as an effective change agent and communicator.
Comments from students:
- “Barbara makes Agile exciting and infectious! She is a pleasure to be around and extremely knowledgeable.”
- “Clearly has a lot of experience and is able to provide examples/best practices based on personal experience.”
- “Excellent instruction. Very interactive, and answered questions well.”
- “Clear, concise, knowledgeable. Barbara was great”
Eugenio (Gene) Rodriguez
Eugenio (Gene) Rodriguez is certified Scrum Master and Product Owner, and a certified Scrum and Scrum@Scale trainer. With over 30 years in the Defense Industry, Gene specializes in consulting, training, and coaching using Agile and Lean practices.
Gene helps programs, leaders and teams significantly improve performance, product development ROI and agility. He coaches programs and leaders with strategic and organizational changes, and enjoys coaching team members. He brings passion towards training and coaching individuals in human behavior and social interactions to create high performing teams.
Comments from students:
- “Gene was great. He actually seems like he really enjoys the material and when the instructor is excited, it makes me excited. He seems like he really knows his stuff!”
- “Great instructor.”
- “Mr. Rodriguez was supportive and engaged throughout the entire class.”
- “Very helpful and informative. Always took the time to follow up. Awesome trainer.”